The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-24
Industrial and Manufacturing Notes.


Sinker Davis g. Co yesterday shipped grain
elevator complete to Fairmount, Ind
Hollweg 81 Reese paid Monday, 81, 1856
duty on forty five crates of queensware, and
yesterday So AGO on 123 crates.
The Indianapolis Gas Company is storing ! 200
carloads OF Pttsburg coal The c., l. St l.. g.
c. is delivering it at the rate of fourteen
loads per day.
The average production of the Atlas engine
works since the LIST of March has been three en-
Cines per day and fifteen boilers per week. an
average of forty horse power.
The w B. Barry Saw and Supply Company
have this week received another large order from
Berlin, Germany. where they have established
agency for their products.
Dean Brothers yesterday received an order for
one of their steam pumps from the United States
government to be put in service at of the
government buildings in st. Louis.
Work on several large buildings is dragging
for want of brick. The first kilns burned are
already we'll exhausted and the brick on the mar
ket falls far short of filing the demand
Chandler & Taylor are still pushed with work
They yesterday shipped two engines and boilers
to st. Louis, and to-day ship an engine and
boiler to Montgomery, Ala. and tomorrow one
to Waldron, Ind.
Frank Zerineer. manufacturer of picture
frames, has considerably enlarged his establish
mept of late AND increased his force. One South
ern house has placed an order with him for ], 900
picture frames per month.
The Eagle machine works are busy this week
moving into their new and commodious shops
South Missouri street and Kentucky avenue. 1t
will be ten days. however, before they will be
we'll out of the old quarters.
The Deerine Harvester Company have been
obliged to increase their force to thirty FIVE men,
and are working until midnight to fill their orders
r. d Truett the general manager, reports their
trade the largest they have ever had in this
State.
Indianapolis carriage manufacturers are hav-
ing a more prosperous trade than for the year
The leading firms claim
have sold 100 per cent. more carriages in the
last sixty DAYS than during the corresponding
period IN 1856
The Hadley Shoe Company has Just put in a
new device for sewing the buttons on shoes
The machine does the work substantially as
it is done by hand, and at the rate of 600 pairs
per dny 1t is said to be the first machine of this
character which has done the work.
At the Deuison House the arc electric lights
have given place to incandescent burners, the
largest manufactured and put to in this
country. These beautiful lights, brilliant but
mellow and not hurtful TO the eye. have been
placed not only in the Office but in the dining
room and all tie halls.
The foreman of the fourine-mill department
eff Sinker Davis g. Co. has devised a three break
corn mill which promises to be of great benefit
10 farmers One of these mills can be owned in
a neighborhood and do the work for all hands
The mill, it is claimed. will grind thirty bushels
of corn per hour, making the best quality of corn
meal
The steel pulley and machine works are put
ting nearly their entire force the manufacture
ing and repairing of apparatus to bore gas wells.
The augur stems they manufacture forty
feet in length. and with the drill point attached
weigh 2 500 pounds. They this week furnish
the apparatus to commence the boring of three
new wells.
The Indianapolis Manufacturing and Supply
Company have largely increased their trade
since the advent to the establishment of Mr..
John O'Day the former superintendent of the
mechanical department of the Nordyke & Mar
mon Company works. An increased force of me-
chanics has been engaged, and the new foundry
recently added is running to its full capacity.
The Central Chair Company works, which
were burned in February last. have been
built of brick and present an imposing appear
ance The main building is 55x160, four stories,
the engine room 40x40. the dry Kiln 25x40.
mill 30x5G one wareroom. 35x85. two stories, and
one 40x90. story. They began work last
week and report that 1t will take six months to
catch up with their orders.
A syndicate is negotiating with Sinker. Davi
81 Co. for their machine works Probably most
of the members of the present firm will remain
in the company. but should the negotiations ter
inmate favorabv the works will be greatly
larged, and it is quite probable says a member
of the syndicate. that they will erect more
extensive buildings at some point on the Belt
road. In the company will be several
wealthy Eastern capitalists. The building of
Touring mills IS to be important feature with
the company.